Re: partiioning option not worth it?

Keith Boulton wrote:

> I (like another poster) have been suckered into using the partitioning
> option when we don't have a licence for it. I was told that we 'a licence
> for everything', but this was from someone who, like me, thought that
> enterprise edition included it.
>
> The partitioning option costs £7000 per processor and I have 2 on the
> machine I'm using. For my needs, I can develop my own equivalent
> functionality in about 1 day.
>
> The partitioning option also requires the enterprise edition which is £28000
> per processor instead of £12000.
>
> For a 2 processor machine, using partitioning will cost £44,000. I believe
> that in > 95% of cases it is straightforward to code the equivalent
> functionality, certainly in less than 20 man weeks.
>
> Why the f. does anyone buy it?
>
> I also notice the clause about reinstatement fee on support contracts now.
> No wonder people are looking to open source software when piss-taking like
> that is going on.

I think partitioning is one of the key technology when each DBMS producer take TPC-D or TPC-H. Received on Wed Feb 20 2002 - 22:31:16 CST